Machu Picchu Research Paper

A place full of vitality in South America , a big abandoned ancient city - Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is in the mountain Huayna Picchu at Peru. Machu Picchu is a great place where Incans lived; buildings are constructed, in precisely networks, they abandoned the city, because of the Spanish invasion.

In ancient Peru, Machu Picchu was one of the hidden cities on the Huayna Picchu. Ancient people built Machu Picchu in steps from desert changed to a a rich farmland. They built up the city using many dry rocks, and it was made up of 150 buildings from houses, temples. They not only using normal rocks but using dry-fitted stonework&stone-paved roads too ,they used the road to connect to the empire . Every stone was so precisely, so a credit card could hardly be inserted between the stones. The stones were so neat, and the Temple of Condor was covered in many stones; the shape of Temple of Condor used the stones to create a shape of the condor's head and the condor's neck feathers. The techniques were used so fine , so earthquakes would not be a big deal for the city. …show more content…
Although Temple of Condor are covered by the 150 buildings from metempsychosis, the dry-fitted stonework was also carved in the shape of the condor's head& neck feathers. Temple of Condor was used for binding prisoners; this temple is the residential area of the Incans high social class; this place was also considered as a sacred by Incans. Seen as a messenger of the spirits or apus. Hope this temple can still be a famous temple for human

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